Employer Docking Salary Pay If You Don't Clock In Or Out

Yea I’m pretty sure they can’t do that

If you’re on salary, why the frick are you punching a clock?

Being paid on a “salary basis” means an employee regularly receives a predetermined amount of compensation each pay period on a weekly, or less frequent, basis. The predetermined amount cannot be reduced because of variations in the quality or quantity of the employee’s work. Subject to exceptions listed below, an exempt employee must receive the full salary for any week in which the employee performs any work, regardless of the number of days or hours worked. Exempt employees do not need to be paid for any workweek in which they perform no work. If the employer makes deductions from an employee’s predetermined salary, i.e., because of the operating requirements of the business, that employee is not paid on a “salary basis.” If the employee is ready, willing and able to work, deductions may not be made for time when work is not available.

Circumstances in Which the Employer May Make Deductions from Pay

Deductions from pay are permissible when an exempt employee:
is absent from work for one or more full days for personal reasons other than sickness or disability;
for absences of one or more full days due to sickness or disability if the deduction is made in accordance with a bona fide plan, policy or practice of providing compensation for salary lost due to illness;
to offset amounts employees receive as jury or witness fees, or for military pay;
for penalties imposed in good faith for infractions of safety rules of major significance;
or for unpaid disciplinary suspensions of one or more full days imposed in good faith for workplace conduct rule infractions.
Also, an employer is not required to pay the full salary in the initial or terminal week of employment, or for weeks in which an exempt employee takes unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

The Department of Labor says your employer is a shite biscuit and is engaged in an illegal practice if they're docking you hours for failing to clock in.

Of course, they can start suspending you full days without pay for failure to follow workplace conduct rules and then they will no longer be engaged in illegal practices. (I assumed you were docked portions of a day).

Apparently, there has been some rulings concerning this lately, as I know of several companies that are really pushing accurate documentation of time worked for both salaried and hourly employees.

I am not an expert in that field, but my guess is that a lot of what you mention is probably in conflict with some labor laws.

My other guess is that whether it is right or wrong, if you push the issue, you will find yourself without a job pretty quickly.

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Don't answer the emails and when they ask why tell them you weren't at the office to clock in and out to avoid the fine, they'll rescind the policy quickly

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If he does this, I don't think the policy will be what gets rescinded!

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If he does this, I don't think the policy will be what gets rescinded! 

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Maybe but the place sounds like a real shithole so, unless he's being way overpaid, no big loss.

The unemployment rate is like 3% so frick 'em!

This whole time clock is how I got promoted

Both of my bosses above me quit the stupid shite like this

I don't agree with it at all and I don't think it's right that we are already 24/7 as it is and I'm dealing with customers pretty much every weekend, at 2am if a trucker needs something but then to come back and charge me because I forgot to clock out during lunch? Come on....

I agree that it is a totally chicken shite thing to do, but as I said earlier, I have seen the same thing popping up in a number of companies. Does nothing but hurt morale and decrease productivity IMO...

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Then play the system. If you didn’t clock out yesterday, don’t clock in today and claim you were there the whole time. Make them prove otherwise.

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We have camera's though.. on both doors and now overwatching our operations group on the inside as well. 5 cameras total (not a huge company)

1 camera on front door
1 camera on back door
1 camera on AP department
1 camera on Intermodal group
1 camera on Trucking group

So once again, I don't understand the need to clock in and out to make sure I'm here or not?